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A comment on V for Vendetta and the Rise of Anonymous - by Alan Moore. Parent comment

Re:V for Vendetta and the Rise of Anonymous - by Alan Moore by aptwebapps on Friday February 10, 2012 @08:22AM (#3575656)
The quote is fine as long as you don't take as an absolute statement of the only way things can be. It is a fact that the outlined strategy is almost always effective.
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Re:V for Vendetta and the Rise of Anonymous - by Alan Moore by arethuza on Friday February 10, 2012 @10:09AM (#3576054)
Thanks, that's what I meant by including it this discussion.

Personally, I would hope we could raise the general level of skepticism and equip ourselves with a Sagan-like "Baloney Detection Kit" so that everyone is aware of this technique for motivating populations towards conflict and that this hopefully makes us all more immune to it.

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